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What If What You Want Isn’t What You Need (Yet)?

December 21, 2025

I recently listened to an episode of The Rich Roll Podcast with Jim Murphy. The whole episode is so good, but there is one thing in particular Jim said that I have thought about every day, multiple times a day since hearing it. The idea was this: We don’t know what’s best for us outcome-wise. We

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Time to set a new record

December 8, 2025

70 days ago I committed to going to bed with a clean kitchen. This is something I’ve struggled with all of my adult life, and it’s something that adds chaos, frustration to my days from the minute I wake up every morning. For 67 days I was perfect. I went to bed with a clean

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Doing the Thing Now Is Changing My Life

October 27, 2025

I’m going to bed with a clean kitchen for the 28th day in a row tonight. 4 weeks. That might not sound like a big deal, but for me, it’s huge. I have never EVER done this. NEVERRRRRRRRRRRRR. My default brain setting is “do it later.” It’s not because I’m a lazy person. I’ve run

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Starting the College Swim Recruiting Process Late? Here’s Why It’s Not Too Late

October 18, 2025

Three years ago, I was less than two years into my divorce, navigating life as a single mom, and struggling just to survive. Kristofer was a senior in high school. He wanted to swim in college. When he started his senior year, we hadn’t started the college swim recruiting process and we hadn’t visited any

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Easy, No Tools Required, Window Shelves

October 12, 2025

I have a dream of living on a homestead, growing most of my own food, and having lots of animals. But right now I live in a condo with no private yard and a 1 dog/1 cat animal limit, so I need to start really small. I have been wanting to start an indoor herb

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99 Days

October 10, 2025

I quit drinking on July 3, 2017. Over eight years ago. But I haven’t been totally sober since then. Over the last five years I started smoking weed on and off. In the last two years the off parts started getting shorter and the on parts started getting longer. I have a hard time with

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